Strzok on prospect of a Trump presidency: “We can’t take that risk”

Powerline ^ | December 13,2017 | Paul Mirengoff

[Hojczyk]

Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller reports on what might prove to be the most revealing text message exchange between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, both of the FBI. On August 25, 2016, Strzok texted Page:

I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk.

It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.

“Andy” very likely is Andrew McCabe, the Deputy FBI director. But what was the “insurance policy.”

Earlier that month, Page wrote to Strzok, “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace.” Presumably, “that menace” was a Trump presidency.

Strzok’s cryptic response was: “I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps.”

Strzok did, indeed, operate at many levels. In a sense he is the Zelig of the “Deep State,” popping up everywhere there was high stakes action, including the Hillary email probe, the fateful Michael Flynn interview and, of course, Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Nothing impresses a mistress (it’s said that Page was Strzok’s) like helping her heroine and protecting against her bete noire. Hillary Clinton seems to have been Page’s heroine. Trump clearly was the bete noire of both Page and Strzok.

We have a sense of what Strzok did to help Hillary. He altered James Comey’s statement about the results of the FBI investigation, eliminating language that explicitly describes a crime. And he interviewed top Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.

[DarthVader]

Only more proof of his treason. He is like the zealots in the movie Absolute Power.

[silverleaf]

This was an FBI conspiracy to alter the outcome of a presidential election, even if necessary by colluding with a contracted British spy and his Russian sources to write up a fake intel dossier that was presented to a FISA court to justify domestic spying on a political campaign

so now what Mr. Mueller?

[Williams]

Meanwhile Rosenstein thinks they can keep their political opinions separate. They are having meetings in which respecting the election results is Plan B!

[M Kehoe]

How is this not treason?

CWII maybe closer than I think.

5.56mm

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[tumblindice]

Unabashed partisan bias by the FBI, like the IRS.
`Unabashed’ because they were sure their fuehrerette would win and they weren’t too concerned about their trail.

Mueller, same/same—they continue to `investigate’ nothing for the same reason bulldogs lick their crotches ... because they can, making John and Jane Citizen think there must be something there. “Aren’t Republicans running things?”
Sometimes—a lot of the time—it’s hard to believe we won a year ago.
Why aren’t these public employee/political hacks defending themselves instead of pursuing conservatives? All of these assistant prosecutors who genuflected to her Heinous. The GOP is running things, right?
Our `conservative’ Grand Old Party heroes in DC support Democrats over Republicans. That’s a categorical fact.

The GOP establishment is going to burn next year.
And it will come as a huge surprise to the turned-out, even though we warned them for two years that it would happen.

[kjam22]

Smoking gun. No doubt

[BenLurkin]

Protecting the Nanny State is NOT protecting the country.

[1Old Pro]

This guy needs to be prosecuted. This is real obstruction of Justice.

[HLPhat]

L.I.F.E.R. R.E.M.F. Zips in the wire.

"Don't worry - it won't be Trump"

DRAIN IT!

[SoConPubbie]

The GOP establishment is going to burn next year. And it will come as a huge surprise to the turned-out, even though we warned them for two years that it would happen.

They don't care.

All they care is that their Establishment Agenda is protected and enacted.

[himno hero]

How STALIN-esque!

[HLPhat]

>>Our `conservative’ Grand Old Party heroes in DC

I just think of them all as L.I.F.E.R. R.E.M.F. anal sphincters.

Kinda like hot dogs - all lips and wherevers.

It’s a waste of processing cycles to bother trying to separate them into any other taxonomic classification.

[scooby321]

Why hasn't Sessions had this man arrested

He is plotting to interfere with a duly elected President.

Everyday I say I can't stand to look at him it gets worse

[CJinVA]

Washington elitist. Unelected FBI bureaucrats conspiring to prevent the American people (states) from electing their own President.

[mass55th]

Typical Democrat. Will go to any length to elect, and keep a Democrat felon in power, even if it means they do it illegally, despite the fact they are supposed to uphold the law.

[samadams2000]

How much longer do we put up with this? When do the people water the tree of liberty?

[Hojczyk]

Let them go and they will all talk to save themselves when the bubble burst..

Everyday more and more..

[Hotlanta Mike]

The insurance policy was the Trump Dossier...